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The English Department in Arts & Sciences (http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~english) offers faculty with expertise in diverse areas of literature, including medieval, renaissance, modern, American and the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Designed by writers for writers, The Writing Program (http://artsci.wustl.edu/~english/writing.htm) at Washington University, offers a rigorous and challenging curriculum for serious students of writing; it has evolved into a unique community of writers, scholars and critics. The Committee on Comparative Literature (http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~complit) at Washington University coordinates a number of Ph.D. programs that combine extensive study of one national literature (or literature in one language) with the study of a second literature and training in literary theory and critical methodology. See the Related Information box on the righthand edge of this page for links to other programs and topics of interest to books and literature.
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| William H. Gass Distinguished University Professor Emeritus in the Humanities (http://news-info.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/765.html)
Expertise: Literary criticism, writing, philosophy Media assistance: (314) 935-5235 / nschoenherr@wustl.edu |
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| Bob Wiltenburg Dean of University College in Arts & Sciences (http://news-info.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/263.html) Expertise: adult education, continuing education, liberal arts, poets, Ben Jonson, English composition, John Milton, … Direct contact: (314) 935-4806 / rewilten@artsci.wustl.edu |
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| David A. Lawton Professor and Chair of English in Arts & Sciences (http://news-info.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/563.html)
David Lawton has published five books and many articles in English literary and cultural studies and in medieval studies. He is currently preparing editions of Chaucer's poetry and prose, and completing a book on voice and space in medieval literature. He is founding co-editor of a major journal, ... Expertise: Medieval literatures, Medieval culture, Chaucer, literary history, literary theory, poetics, The Bible, … Direct contact: (314) 935-5114 / dalawton@wustl.edu |
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| Joseph Loewenstein Professor of English in Arts & Sciences (http://news-info.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/564.html)
Joseph Loewenstein's recent books — "The Author's Due: Printing and the Prehistory of Copyright" (2002) and "Ben Jonson and Possessive Authorship" (2002) — are studies of Early Modern intellectual property, the prehistory of modern copyright, but he is also extremely interested in prosody and poetics. ... Expertise: Renaissance literature, Shakespeare, Milton, Spenser, Jonson, Renaissance poetry and drama, poetics, … Direct contact: (314) 935-4404 / jfloewen@wustl.edu |
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| Paul Lützeler Rosa May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities (http://news-info.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/572.html) Lützeler teaches in both the German Department and the Comparative Literature Program. His research and teaching interests include German and European Romanticism, German exile literature, contemporary scholarly discourses (postmodernism, postcolonialism, globalization), and cultural studies in general. ... Expertise: German Romanticism, European Romanticism, German exile literature, contemporary scholarly discourses, postmodernism, postcolonialism, globalization, … Direct contact: (314) 935-4784 / jahrbuch@wustl.edu |
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| "What We Believe: A History of the George Warren Brown School of Social Work: 1909-2007" New book looks at nearly 100 years of social work at the University and in St. Louis (http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/11620.html) April 30, 2008 -- To celebrate nearly 100 years of existence and a new era in social work education, the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis is publishing What We Believe: A History of the George Warren Brown School of Social Work: 1909- 2007. Author Candace O'Connor begins the book with a look at poverty in St. Louis and the early history of social work education locally, and concludes with an overview of more recent accomplishments and a glimpse at the Brown School's future. Threaded throughout the book are milestones and evolutions in social work education as well as first-person accounts from alumni and current and former faculty. |
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| Tale of Genji Campus celebrates 1000th anniversary of 'world's first novel,' April 18 (http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/11469.html) April 4, 2008 --
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| Wee reads Miniature book exhibition opens at WUSTL (http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/11390.html) March 27, 2008 --
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| Mary Jo Bang Examines Grief's Poetic Form, the Elegy
PBS: The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and 1 others April 11, 2008 -- In Thursday night's installment of its Poetry Series, WUSTL writer Mary Jo Bang examines grief's poetic form, the elegy. She is professor of English and director of the Creative Writing Program at WUSTL. Her fifth book, "Elegy," which won of the National Book Critics Circle Award, examines the pain and grief following the death of her son. She shares two poems from the collection. Includes a video link to this story. |
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| Building a Spenser collection for the ages
Los Angeles Times and 1 others Jan. 28, 2008 -- Joseph Loewenstein, a Renaissance literature expert at WUSTL, is leading a team of graduate and undergraduate students to compile, edit, annotate and digitize Spenser's complete oeuvre. |
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| "The Secret" Draws on Long Tradition
Associated Press Online and 57 others June 25, 2007 -- Writer looks at the popularity of the best seller "The Secret" and the history of the New Thought movement. WUSTL religious studies professor Frank Flinn comments. |
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| 'Hana's Suitcase' bridges 2 worlds in its search for a girl who died at Auschwitz
Associated Press and 16 others Jan. 19, 2007 -- AP's Cheryl Wittenauer reports on the story behind Hana's Suitcase, a play that is receiving its American premiere this week at WUSTL's Edison Theatre. Playwright Emil Sher's adaptation of the best-selling book of the same name by Karen Levine is co-produced by Edison Theatre and Metro Theater Company. |
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| Drill hole begins Homeric quest
BBCNews.com (UK) Oct. 12, 2006 -- A UK-led team is challenging cherished ideas on Greek mythology by proposing an alternative site for Ithaca. The island was said to be the home of Odysseus, whose 10-year journey back from the Trojan War is chronicled in Homer's epic poem the Odyssey. Geologists are this week sinking a borehole on nearby Kefalonia in an attempt to test whether its western peninsula of Paliki is the real site. WUSTL art history and archaeology professor Sarantis Symeonoglou, who has spent years trying to tie locations on Ithaki to details in the poem, comments. |
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| The Injustice Collector
The New Yorker July 13, 2006 -- In a June 19 article on the legal battle over intellectual property rights between James Joyce's grandson and various scholars, WUSTL law professor and intellectual property specialist F. Scott Kieff comments. |
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| Scribes of the Digital Era
Chronicle of Higher Education Jan. 26, 2006 -- Article on a library-scanning project that brings public-domain materials online and offers an alternative to Google's model. Internet Archive, is guiding a mass-digitization project called the Open Content Alliance, which was announced in October and is rapidly gaining partners. The alliance plans to take carefully selected collections of out-of-copyright books from libraries around the world and turn them into e-books that will be available free to scholars and anyone else who wants to view them, print them, or even download them to their own computers. WUSTL recently joined. Shirley Baker, vice chancellor for information technology and dean of university libraries, comments. |
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| University library's collection tells story of secret codes
Associated Press and St. Louis Post-Dispatch Aug. 15, 2005 -- The invention of the printing press didn't just make it easier to disseminate information, it made it easier to hide it, too -- as the collection of books in a vault at WUSTL shows. The books, some more than 500 years old, chronicle the history of secret codes -- some concealed so intricately that art professor Ken Botnick regularly shows them to his students. (Link also contains the text of the longer St. Louis Post-Dispatch article on the collection.) |
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| Hemingway pal A.E. Hotchner recalls his old friend
Associated Press and 11 others July 21, 2005 -- Dear Papa, Dear Hotch -- letters between Ernest Hemingway and WUSTL alum A.E. Hotchner -- will be released this fall by U. Missouri Press. Hotchner talks about his friend and his life. |
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| Unpublished Williams poem found in bookstore
Associated Press and 115 others April 15, 2005 -- A previously unpublished poem by Tennessee Williams, described as having been "written out of absolute, complete despair," has been discovered in his blue test booklet from a college course in 1937. The poem has been acquired by WUSTL, where Williams, as a student in his mid-20s, plummeted into depression before fleeing the city he said he despised. WUSTL performing arts chair Henry Schvey found the poem and test booklet last March at Faulkner House Books in New Orleans. |
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| Mona Van Duyn, former U.S. poet laureate, dies at 83
New York Times and 11 others Dec. 6, 2004 -- Ms. Van Duyn was selected by the Library of Congress in 1992 to serve a term as the United States poet laureate. She was the sixth laureate and the first woman to be chosen. Mona Jane Van Duyn was born on May 9, 1921, in Waterloo, Iowa. She taught at the University of Louisville, in Kentucky, and at Washington University in St. Louis, as well as at writing seminars and conferences. |
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| St. Patrick's real life more fascinating than the myths
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| 20 years after his death, a Tennessee Williams' work is staged for the first time
The New York Times April 26, 2004 -- Twenty years after his death, one of Tennessee Williams' plays is seeing the light of a stage for the first time. "Me Vashya," an early play by Williams, will receive its world premiere at Washington University in St. Louis in February. Written in 1937 while Williams was a student here and known as Tom, his birth name, the play has remained in Washington University archives for more than 60 years. It has never been published or performed — until now. |
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| Book review - The End of Blackness
The New York Times April 26, 2004 -- Book review of Debra Dickerson's The End of Blackness by Gerald Early, author and director of WUSTL Center for the Humanities. Early writes: "With the publication of ''The End of Blackness,'' a book not only about white racism but about black people's response to it, Debra J. Dickerson joins a growing and varied class of black public intellectuals that includes people like John McWhorter, Bell Hooks, Michael Eric Dyson, Patricia Williams, Henry Louis Gates, Shelby Steele, Thulani Davis, Stanley Crouch, Greg Tate, Ellis Cose and Brent Staples. Their views are sufficiently different that they might be said to represent distinct factions among African-Americans and, no less relevant, speak to distinct factions of educated whites." |
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| You're no Isaac Newton
The New York Times April 25, 2004 -- Derek Hirst, chairman of the department of history in Arts & Sciences, reviews The Curious Life of Robert Hooke, The Man Who Measured London, by Lisa Jardine. Hooke is described as a rival to Newton. His pursuits included studying the planetary orbits, inventing and building scientific instruments, and pioneering work with microscopes. |
Medieval Literature
David Lawton, Professor
Chaucer's Narrators, Faith Text and History: The Bible in English, Blasphemy; "Middle English Alliterative Poetry: An Introduction," "Englishing the Bible: 1066-1549," "Voice, Authority and Blasphemy in The Book of Margery Kempe."
Renaissance Literature
David Hadas, Professor
Book in progress on the Nature of Religion; papers on "Joseph Smith and the Zohar: Radical Rewriting of the Bible" and "Religion in the Phaedrus."
Joseph Loewenstein, Associate Professor
Responsive Readings: Versions of Echo in Pastoral, Epic, and the Jonsonian Masque; Jonson and Possessive Authorship: 'Meum Theatrum'; "The Jonsonian Corpulence; or, the Poet as Mouthpiece," "Plays Agonistic and Competitive: The Textual Approach to Elsinore," "Legal Proofs and Corrected Readings," "Spenser's Retrography: Two Episodes in Post Petrarchan Bibliography."
Seventeenth-Century Literature
Steven Zwicker, Stanley Elkin Professor in the Humanities
Lines of Authority: Politics and Literary Culture, 1649-1689; Politics and Language in Dryden's Poetry; The Cambridge Companion to Augustan Literature, and ed. Refiguring Revolutions: Politics and Aesthetics from the English Revolution to the Romantic Revolution; essays on Milton, Marvell, Dryden, Restoration aesthetics; work in progress on reading practices in early modern England; director NEH Summer Institute, "The History of Reading," Folger Library, summer, 1997.
Robert Wiltenburg, Adjunct Associate Professor
Ben Jonson and Self-Love: The Subtlest Maze of All; "Donne's Dialogue of One: The Self and the Soul," "The Aeneid in The Tempest"; articles on Jonson, Milton, Marvell and others; current work on Donne.
Eighteenth-Century Literature
Erin Mackie, Associate Professor
Market a la Mode: Fashion, Commodity and Gender in The Tatler and The Spectator; articles on Swift and Charlotte Clarke; on eighteenth-century shopping and West Indian Creoles; an edition of selections from The Tatler and Spectator.
Amy Pawl: Adjunct Assistant Professor
"Names and their Owners in Frances Burney's Evelina"; "The Female Quixote and Her Sisters: Feminine Transformations of the Quixote in the Eighteenth-Century," work in progress on Austen and Inchbald.
Nineteenth-Century Literature
Miriam Bailin, Associate Professor The Sickroom in Victorian Fiction: The Art of Being Ill; articles on Ford Madox Ford, Charlotte Bronte, Tennyson, Florence Nightingale, "Victorian Sentimentality and the Figure of the Parvenu"; work in progress on Victorian sentimentality and social status.
Guinn Batten, Associate Professor
The Orphaned Imagination: Melancholia in English Romantic Poetry "Signs of the Fathers and the Redemption of Poetic Sons: Paul Muldoon's Pastoral Politics," "Ciaran Carson's Parturient Partition: The 'Crack' in MacNeice's 'More Than Glass.'"
William McKelvy, Assistant Professor
"Much Better Burnt: Reading Arthur's Return by the Light of Troy" (Tennyson); articles on Gladstone and Macaulay; "Primitive ballads, modern criticism, ancient skepticism: Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome"; work in progress on secularization and the literary imagination.
Modern Literature and Contemporary Literature
Steven Meyer, Associate Professor
Beyond Organic Form: Gertrude Stein and Johns Hopkins Neuroanatomy, "Words at Bay (Geoffrey Hill)," "Ashbery: Poet for All Seasons," "Critical Self-Critic (Gertrude Stein)" "Irresistible Dictation: Gertrude Stein and the Correlations of Writing and Science.
American Literature
Gerald Early, Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters
One Nation Under Groove: Motown and American Culture; Daughters: On Family and Fatherhood; Lure and Loathing: Essays on Race, Identity and Ambivalence of Assimilation; Speech and Power: The African-American Essay and Its Cultural Content from Polemics to Pulpit (V. 1 and 2); The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Literature, Prizefighting, and Modern American Culture; My Soul's High Song: The Selected Writings of Countee Cullen. Joint-Appointment: African and Afro-American Studies.
Wayne Fields, Lynne Cooper Harvey Distinguished Professor of English; Director, American Culture Institute
Union of Words: A History of Presidential Eloquence. Editor, Cooper: A Collection of Critical Essays. "One Hundred Years of Solitude and New World Literature," "The American Adams," "To Redeem From Ignorance: Jefferson and the Liberal Arts." Fiction: The Past Leads a Life of Its Own. Memoir: What the River Knows: An Angler in Mid-Stream.
Robert Milder, Professor
Reimagining Thoreau; "The Scarlet Letter and Its Discontents"; "Melville and the Avenging Dream" (forthcoming Dec. 1997 in The Cambridge Companion to Melville); "The Radical Emerson?" in The Cambridge Companion to Emerson); Melville's Evermoving Dawn: Centennial Essays, co-edited with John Bryant; "Editing Melville's Afterlife"; Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales, ed. with an Introduction.
Vivian Pollak, Professor
Dickinson: The Anxiety of Gender; A Poet's Parents: The Courtship Letters of Emily Norcross and Edward Dickinson; Editor, New Essays on James's Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw. The Erotic Whitman (supported by NEH Fellowship), American Women Poets Reading Dickinson (Helen Hunt Jackson, Amy Lowell, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich); Past President, Emily Dickinson International Society.
Paul Rosenzweig, Adjunct Associate Professor
Articles on Faulkner, Poe, Henry James, John Hawkes, D.H. Lawrence, Cooper, and Nabakov.
Richard Ruland, Professor
The Rediscovery of American Literature: Premises of Critical Taste, 1900-1940; America in Modern European Literature: From Image to Metaphor; co-author, From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature (trans. Czech and Hungarian); ed. The Native Muse and A Storied Land: Theories of American Literature. Fellowships: Bruern, Fullbright, Guggenheim.
Daniel Shea, Professor
Spiritual Autobiography in Early America; "Emerson and the American Metamorphosis," "Early American Autobiography and the Myth of Origins," "Thomas Morton and the Naming of New England" (Richard Beale Davis Prize, 1988), Editor, Some Account of the Fore Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge, Associate Editor, Columbia Literary History of the United States.
Rafia Zafar, Associate Professor
We Wear the Mask: African Americans Write American Literature, 1760-1870; New Essays on Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, co-edited with Deborah Garfield; God Made Man, Man Made the Slave: The Autobiography of George Teamoh, with Richard L. Hume; "The Proof of the Pudding: Of Haggis, Hasty Pudding, and Transatlantic Influence,"Early American Literature 31:2 (1996); And They Called It Macaroni: Eating, Drinking, and Being American (forthcoming). Joint Appointment: African and Afro-American Studies.
The Writing Program (http://artsci.wustl.edu/~english/writing.htm)
William H. Gass, Professor, Dept. of Philosophy
Fiction: Omensetter's Luck, In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, Willie Master's Lonesome Wife, The Tunnel.
Criticism: Fiction and the Figures of Life, On Being Blue, The World Within the World, Habitations of the World
Mary Jo Bang, Assistant Professor
Poetry: Apology for Want; The Downstream Etremity of the Isle of Swans; Louise in Love
Marshall Klimasewiski, Assistant Professor
Fiction: Stories in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, The Yale Review; Ploughshares, The Antioch Review
Charles Newman, Professor
Fiction: White Jazz, A Child's History of America, The New Axis, The Promise Keeper, There Must Be More To Love Than Death. Criticism: The Post-Modern Aura, "The Lesson of the Master: Henry James and James Baldwin," "Beyond Omniscience: Notes Toward a Future of the Novel," editions of writings on Nabokov and Borges. Work in progress: Lost Victories,a fictional trilogy.
Carl Phillips, Professor
In the Blood (Morse Poetry Prize 1992); Cortege (finalist National Book Critics circle Award 1995, finalist Lambda Literary Award); From the Devotions; Pastoral; translation of Sophocles's Philoctetes. Joint-Appointment: African and Afro-American Studies.
Washington University Committee on Comparative Literature (http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~complit)
The Committee on Comparative Literature coordinates a number of Ph.D. programs that combine extensive study of one national literature (or literature in one language) with the study of a second literature and training in literary theory and critical methodology. A listing of participating faculty and their research areas is included below.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE FACULTY
Chair
Robert Henke (Comparative Literature and Drama) Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley
rhenke@artsci.wustl.edu (314) 935-4473
Research interests: Comparative Renaissance drama (primarily English and Italian), orality and literacy, and festival and ritual.
Recent publications: Performance and Literature in the Commedia dell'Arte (Cambridge University Press, 2002), Pastoral Transformations: Italian Tragicomedy and Shakespeare's Late Plays (Delaware, 1997)
Professors
Robert Hegel (ANELL: Chinese) Ph.D., Columbia University
Chair of Comparative Literature, Professor of Chinese Language & Literature
rhegel@artsci.wustl.edu (314) 935-7476
Research interests: The reading of fiction in China over the past 500 years; the interactions of illustrations and text in the act of reading; ideological formulations and structuring schemes in fictional and non-fictional narratives of the Qing (1644-1911).
Recent publications: Reading Illustrated Fiction in Late Imperial China (Stanford Univ. Press, 1998), and essays on the interrelated development of print culture and popular reading materials.
Paul Michael Lützeler (German) Ph.D., Indiana University
Rosa May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities
jahrbuch@artsci.wustl.edu (314) 935-4784
Research interests: German and European Romanticism; twentieth-century German and European literature (especially exile literature, and contemporary German literature); cultural theories: postmodernism, multiculturalism, postcolonialism; European identity.
Gerhild S. Williams (German) Ph.D., University of Washington
Barbara Schaps Thomas & David M. Thomas Professor of Humanities in Arts & Sciences
gerhild_williams@artsci.wustl.edu (gerhild_williams@artsci.wustl.edu) (314) 935-5106
Research interests: Early modern French and German daemonologies; late Middle Ages; Renaissance/Reformation; literature and history; literary theory.
Recent publications: Co-edited with Stephan Schinder Knowledge, Science, and Literature in Early Modern Germany (N. Carolina Univ. Press, 1996); "Die Wissenschaft von den Hexen: Jean Bodin und sein Übersetzer Johann Fischart als Demonologen" in Knowledge, Science, and Literature in Early Modern Germany; "Paracelsus" in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation; "Das Fremde erkennen: Zur Erzahlfunkition des Lachens im Mittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit" in Semiotik, Rhetoric und Soziologie des Lachens, ed. Lothar Fietz (Niemeyer, 1996).
Milica Banjanin (Russian) Ph.D., Washington University
banjanin@artsci.wustl.edu (314) 935-4557
Research interests: Twentieth-century Russian literature; Russian modernism, interactions between the fine arts and literature, and poetry.
Work in progress: A study of Consciousness of Scene in Early Twentieth-Century Russian Literature
Recent publications: "Elena Guro: From the City's Junkyard of Images to a Poetics of Nature" Studia Slavica Finlandensia. Tomus XVI/1 (1999): 43-63.
Miriam Bailin (English) Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
mlbailin@artsci.wustl.edu (mlbailin@artsci.wustl.edu) (314) 935-7132
Research interests: the English Novel, Contemporary English and European fiction, Victorian literature and culture, British colonialism in literature and the visual arts.
Book in Progress: writing a book on status and sentiment in the 19th century British novel.
John Garganigo (Romance Languages: Spanish) Ph.D., University of Illinois
jfgargan@artsci.wustl.edu (314) 935-5145
Research interests: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Latin American poetry and narrative.
David Hadas (English) Ph.D., Columbia University
dhadas@artsci.wustl.edu (314) 935-4412
Research interests: Teaching the Bible as literature in light of recent critical developments.
Robert Lamberton (Classics) Yale University
rdlamber@artsci.wustl.edu (314) 935-8587
Research interests: Greek epic and the history of its interpretation; ancient literary hermeneutics; late antiquity.
Recent publications: [Plutarch] Essay on the Life and Poetry of Homer
Stamos Metzidakis (Romance Languages: French) Ph.D., Columbia University
smetz@artsci.wustl.edu (314) 935-4972
Work in progress: Currently working on 2 new books: 1) on visual aspects of nineteenth-century French poetry; 2) on the generalized loss of notion of "culture."
Recent publications: Difference Unbound: The Rise of Pluralism in Literature and Criticism (1995); Understanding French Poetry: Essays for a new millennium (1994)
Dolores Pesce (Music) Ph.D., University of Maryland
dpesce@artsci.wustl.edu (314) 935-5592
Research interests: the 13th-century motet, particularly its text-music relationships; Franz Liszt
Work in progress: Writing a book about the life and music of Franz Liszt with special focus on how his spirituality affected his creations
Recent works: Guido d'Arezzo's Regule rithmice, Prologus in antiphonarium,and Epistola ad michahelem: a critical text and translation, with an introduction, annotations, indices, and new manuscript inventories. Musicological Studies Vol. LXXIII. Ottawa, Canada: The Institute of Mediaeval Music, 1999, and Hearing the Motet: Essays on the Motet of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, ed. Dolores Pesce. Oxford University Press, 1997.
Richard Ruland (English) Ph.D., University of Michigan
rruland@artsci.wustl.edu (314) 935-4408
Research interests: Literary history and canon formation; cultural nationalism in America; British-American cultural relations; the history, theory, and method of literary study in America.
Henry Schvey (Performing Arts) Ph.D., Indiana University
hischvey@artsci.wustl.edu (314) 935-5885
Research interests: Literature and the other arts; German Expressionism; Comparative Drama; Contemporary British and American Drama: Shakespeare in Production
Works in Progress: Hannah's Shawl (original play commissioned by the Holocaust Museum)
Harriet Stone (Romance Languages: French) Ph.D., Brown University
hastone@artsci.wustl.edu (314) 935-5142
Research interests: Seventeenth-century French studies; women in literature; the representation of the Orient in classical French texts.
Work in progress: Currently at work on Mirror in the Text: The mise en abîme in literature, art, law, science, and history in the classical period and its contribution to knowledge.
Recent publications: The Classical Model (Cornell, 1996) studies the contribution of literature to the formation of knowledge and the scientific revolution (works by Corneille, Racine, Molière, La Rochefoucauld, Lafayette, Descartes, and others. Edited L'Esprit Créateur (Summer, 1998)—the Tri-Centennial issue on Racine.
Mark Weil (Art History and Archaeology) Ph.D., Columbia University
msweil@artsci.wustl.edu (314) 935-5223
Research interests: Seventeenth-century art, Renaissance and Baroque theatre and scenography, Italian Renaissance gardens.
Associate Professors
Nancy Berg (ANELL: Modern Hebrew) Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
nberg@artsci.wustl.edu (314) 935-4451
Research interests: Modern Hebrew & Arabic Literatures; Immigration Literature; Women's Literature; Genre Literature
Recent publications: Exile From Exile: Israeli Writers from Iraq.
Roland Jordan (Music) Ph.D., Washington University
rcjordon@artsci.wustl.edu (rcjordan@artsci.wustl.edu) (314) 935-5594
Research interests: Composition, music theory, comparative arts.
Joseph Loewenstein (English) Ph.D., Yale University
jfloewen@artsci.wustl.edu (314) 935-4404
Research interests: Renaissance poetry and drama, poetics, Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson, Milton.
Recent publications: Authorial Impression: The Production of Intellectual Property in Early-Modern England.
Stephan K. Schindler (German, Comparative & Film Studies) Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
skschind@artsci.wustl.edu (314) 935-5136
Research interests: 18th- and 20th century German literature, film studies, gender studies, psychoanalysis, Holocaust studies
Work in progress: Screening Horror: The Holocaust in Film
Recent publication: Eingebildete Koerper: Phantasierte Sexualitaet in der Goethezeit (Stauffenburg 2001)
Senior Lecturer
Emma Kafalenos (Comparative Literature) Ph.D., Washington University
emkafale@artsci.wustl.edu (314) 935-7613
Research interests: Narrative Theory; Postmodernism; Comparative Arts; Poetics.
Recent publications: "Toward a Typology of Indeterminacy in Postmodem Narrative" (Comparative Literature 44,4); "Implications of Narrative in Painting and Photography" (New Novel Review 3); "The Power of Double Coding to Represent New Forms of Representation: The Truman Show, Dorian Gray, 'Blow-Up,' and Whistler's Caprice in Purple and Gold" (Poetics Today, forthcoming). Edited Narrative 9:2, Special issue on Contemporary Narratology.
Adjunct Faculty
Pedro C. U. Cavalcanti (Anthropology) Ph.D., University of Warsaw
Professors Emeriti
William Gass (Philosophy) Ph.D., Cornell University
Naomi Lebowitz (English) Ph.D., Washington University
Robert E. Morrell (ANELL: Japanese) Ph.D., Stanford University
James F. Poag (German) Ph.D., University of Illinois
Michel Rybalka (Romance Languages: French) Ph.D., University of California-Los Angeles
M. Sale (Classics and Comparative Literature) Ph.D., Cornell University
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